I have the most tickly cough - is there any remedy that works???

[AdamAnt]

Seriously - I feel like I'm going to burst a blood vessel with all this coughing. Aaaaaarrgh!

I have always found that standard cough mixtures provide relief for a few hours.

vicks used to make a cough mixture that looked like pus but was great, it coated your throat

it was in a white opaque bottle

Really? I've think I've only ever tried namby pamby cough mixtures. I obviously need to try something stronger.

Will go in search of the Vick's stuff tomorrow.

In the meantime does anyone have any home remedies that might tide me over?

I'd sounding like a cat with a hairball.

I'm

teaspoon of honey - antiseptic properties and helps coat and soothe the throat.

Nice warm milky drink

HTH

Am going through this with dd atm - and after consulation with pharmacist came away with Jnr Sudofed (she still has some nasal congestion) and pholcodine. And so far so good I am pleased to report!

spoonful of runny honey

also good for the over 1s and tastes nicer than most of them

I've got this cough too. Pharmacist gave me some disgusting-tasting linctus ending in codeine. Only cost £1.22 and works a treat.

Thanks folks. I asked DH to get me the finest cough medicine available to humanity on his way home, and he bought me some crappy on-the-shelf stuff because the queue at the Tesco pharmacy counter was too long

Its 'active ingredients' are glycerol and 'liquid sugar'. Liquid Sugar??? FFS. I'm rejecting it sneerily in favour of milk and honey until I can get my mitts on something hardcore.

Suck on a square of chocolate..I'm not kidding, it really works.

Weleda Herb and Honey Cough Elixir - the only one that worked for me.

Hot lemon and honey drink works for me. Or a drink of milk seems to coat the throat and make it too clacky for coughing.

Glycerol is liquid sugar.

It is to coat the throat.

Pholcodine linctus. Just comes in a normal chemist bottle, no fancy packaging, dead cheap (about £1.50) and actually works.

Just read the thread after posting, and realise 3 of us recommend the same. It really is good stuff.

OK I neeeeeed this pholcodine stuff.

SMS - really? It lists them as two separate things! Anyway it's shit and it cost over £4!!!

I found that if I woke up in the night with a tickly cough, Beachams all in one medicine and a cup of tea worked a treat.